Simple Cisco NAT Concepts – Nat Overload — 2015-12-09

Hey howdy. Yeah another one of these.. This is sort of a quick Natting guide for Cisco Routers.

In the Cisco world you have 3 basic types of NAT, Static, Dynamic and Overload. Obviously these are more for me than you 😀 and you should look to cisco for documentation.

Nat Overload – this you are familiar with, and the concept is easy, if you are given a small or a single public IP and you want to use NAT to allow access to the public internet from your local IPs that are not public addresses, you can generally accomplish this with NAT Overload.

To accomplish this we start with identifying which interface is “inside” and which is “outside” on our router.

Here is my diagram I made:

The blue on the left is the “inside” (int gi0/0) and the right is considered “outside” (int gi0/1) and our router0 is considered your gateway to the internet. The other Router in play here is merely to simulate the internet. I’ve placed a webserver behind it, and that server is also running DNS.